Thursday, October 19, 2006

YO apoyo un juicio a Bush por crimenes contra su nación, y contra el mundo, él y todos sus jefes han arruinado y alterado las vidas de millones

SPECIAL COMMENT
By Keith Olbermann
Anchor, 'Countdown'
Countdown
Updated: 1:00 p.m. MT Oct 19, 2006

We have lived as if in a trance.

We have lived as people in fear.

And now—our rights and our freedoms in peril—we slowly awaken to learn that we have been afraid of the wrong thing.

Therefore, tonight have we truly become the inheritors of our American legacy.

For, on this first full day that the Military Commissions Act is in force, we now face what our ancestors faced, at other times of exaggerated crisis and melodramatic fear-mongering:

A government more dangerous to our liberty, than is the enemy it claims to protect us from.

We have been here before—and we have been here before, led here by men better and wiser and nobler than George W. Bush.

We have been here when President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use those acts to jail newspaper editors.

American newspaper editors, in American jails, for things they wrote about America.

We have been here when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war.

American public speakers, in American jails, for things they said about America.

And we have been here when President Franklin D. Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9066 was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that order to imprison and pauperize 110,000 Americans while his man in charge, General DeWitt, told Congress: “It makes no difference whether he is an American citizen—he is still a Japanese.”

American citizens, in American camps, for something they neither wrote nor said nor did, but for the choices they or their ancestors had made about coming to America.

Each of these actions was undertaken for the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And each was a betrayal of that for which the president who advocated them claimed to be fighting.

Adams and his party were swept from office, and the Alien and Sedition Acts erased.

Many of the very people Wilson silenced survived him, and one of them even ran to succeed him, and got 900,000 votes, though his presidential campaign was conducted entirely from his jail cell.

And Roosevelt’s internment of the Japanese was not merely the worst blight on his record, but it would necessitate a formal apology from the government of the United States to the citizens of the United States whose lives it ruined.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

In times of fright, we have been only human.

We have let Roosevelt’s “fear of fear itself” overtake us.

We have listened to the little voice inside that has said, “the wolf is at the door; this will be temporary; this will be precise; this too shall pass.”

We have accepted that the only way to stop the terrorists is to let the government become just a little bit like the terrorists.

Just the way we once accepted that the only way to stop the Soviets was to let the government become just a little bit like the Soviets.

Or substitute the Japanese.

Or the Germans.

Or the Socialists.

Or the Anarchists.

Or the Immigrants.

Or the British.

Or the Aliens.

The most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And, always, always wrong.

“With the distance of history, the questions will be narrowed and few: Did this generation of Americans take the threat seriously, and did we do what it takes to defeat that threat?”

Wise words.

And ironic ones, Mr. Bush.

Your own, of course, yesterday, in signing the Military Commissions Act.

You spoke so much more than you know, Sir.

Sadly—of course—the distance of history will recognize that the threat this generation of Americans needed to take seriously was you.

We have a long and painful history of ignoring the prophecy attributed to Benjamin Franklin that “those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

But even within this history we have not before codified the poisoning of habeas corpus, that wellspring of protection from which all essential liberties flow.

You, sir, have now befouled that spring.

You, sir, have now given us chaos and called it order.

You, sir, have now imposed subjugation and called it freedom.

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And — again, Mr. Bush — all of them, wrong.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has said it is unacceptable to compare anything this country has ever done to anything the terrorists have ever done.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who has insisted again that “the United States does not torture. It’s against our laws and it’s against our values” and who has said it with a straight face while the pictures from Abu Ghraib Prison and the stories of Waterboarding figuratively fade in and out, around him.

We have handed a blank check drawn against our freedom to a man who may now, if he so decides, declare not merely any non-American citizens “unlawful enemy combatants” and ship them somewhere—anywhere -- but may now, if he so decides, declare you an “unlawful enemy combatant” and ship you somewhere - anywhere.

And if you think this hyperbole or hysteria, ask the newspaper editors when John Adams was president or the pacifists when Woodrow Wilson was president or the Japanese at Manzanar when Franklin Roosevelt was president.

And if you somehow think habeas corpus has not been suspended for American citizens but only for everybody else, ask yourself this: If you are pulled off the street tomorrow, and they call you an alien or an undocumented immigrant or an “unlawful enemy combatant”—exactly how are you going to convince them to give you a court hearing to prove you are not? Do you think this attorney general is going to help you?

This President now has his blank check.

He lied to get it.

He lied as he received it.

s there any reason to even hope he has not lied about how he intends to use it nor who he intends to use it against?

“These military commissions will provide a fair trial,” you told us yesterday, Mr. Bush, “in which the accused are presumed innocent, have access to an attorney and can hear all the evidence against them.”

"Presumed innocent," Mr. Bush?

The very piece of paper you signed as you said that, allows for the detainees to be abused up to the point just before they sustain “serious mental and physical trauma” in the hope of getting them to incriminate themselves, and may no longer even invoke The Geneva Conventions in their own defense.

"Access to an attorney," Mr. Bush?

ieutenant Commander Charles Swift said on this program, Sir, and to the Supreme Court, that he was only granted access to his detainee defendant on the promise that the detainee would plead guilty.

"Hearing all the evidence," Mr. Bush?

The Military Commissions Act specifically permits the introduction of classified evidence not made available to the defense.

Your words are lies, Sir.

They are lies that imperil us all.

“One of the terrorists believed to have planned the 9/11 attacks,” you told us yesterday, “said he hoped the attacks would be the beginning of the end of America.”

That terrorist, sir, could only hope.

Not his actions, nor the actions of a ceaseless line of terrorists (real or imagined), could measure up to what you have wrought.

Habeas corpus? Gone.

The Geneva Conventions? Optional.

The moral force we shined outwards to the world as an eternal beacon, and inwards at ourselves as an eternal protection? Snuffed out.

These things you have done, Mr. Bush, they would be “the beginning of the end of America.”

And did it even occur to you once, sir — somewhere in amidst those eight separate, gruesome, intentional, terroristic invocations of the horrors of 9/11 -- that with only a little further shift in this world we now know—just a touch more repudiation of all of that for which our patriots died --- did it ever occur to you once that in just 27 months and two days from now when you leave office, some irresponsible future president and a “competent tribunal” of lackeys would be entitled, by the actions of your own hand, to declare the status of “unlawful enemy combatant” for -- and convene a Military Commission to try -- not John Walker Lindh, but George Walker Bush?

For the most vital, the most urgent, the most inescapable of reasons.

And doubtless, Sir, all of them—as always—wrong.

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

US population reaches 300 million
Woman with new born child in Florida
It is not possible to identify an official 300-millionth American
The US population has hit 300 million people, just 39 years after it reached 200 million, according to US Census Bureau estimates.

The population reached the milestone at 0746 (1146GMT) - a timing based on calculations that factor in birth and death rates and migration.

The bureau's maths suggests that the US gains one person every 11 seconds.

But it is not possible to say if the 300-millionth American was a new-born or crossed one of the US borders.

Correspondents say that there is not expected to be the same hullabaloo as when the figure of 100 million was reached in 1915, or the double century in 1967 when President Johnson gave a speech and newborn Robert Ken Woo Jr was hailed the 200-millionth American by Life magazine.

Ethnic diversity graph

Today, the population figure is mired in the divisive politics of immigration - a hot-button issue ahead of the 7 November mid-term elections, they say.

The population in the US is the third largest in the world, behind China and India.

According to the Census Bureau, 14% of the current US population is Hispanic, compared to 4% in 1966, and it is projected that a quarter of the population will be Hispanic in 2050.

It is also expected that in the next 50 years there will be more Hispanic births in the US than immigrants.

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Environmental groups have also cautioned on America's growing consumer consumption, and what they say are damaging "patterns" of population expansion.

Michael Replogle, of Environmental Defense, told the Associated Press news agency: "If the population grows in thriving existing communities, restoring the historic density of older communities, we can easily sustain that growth and create a more efficient economy without sacrificing the environment."

Ethnic diversity graph

Vicky Markham, director of the Center for Environment and Population, said "sprawl has become the most predominant form of land use", with the US becoming a "suburban nation".

"Sprawl is, by definition, more spread out. That of course requires more vehicles and more vehicle miles travelled," she told AP.

Other figures released by the Census Bureau, show how America has been changing since previous population milestones.

  • In 1915, immigrant citizens came mostly from Germany; in 1967 from Italy; and in 2006 mostly from Mexico
  • The average US family had 4.5 people in 1915, 3.3 in 1967 and 2.6 in 2006
  • Some 45.9% of Americans were property owners in 1915. That grew to 63.6% in 1967 and reached 68.9% in 2006
  • There were 4.5 million people aged 65 and older in 1915, or 4.5%; 19.1 million in 1967 (9.5%) and 36.8 million in 2006 (12.4%)
  • Life expectancy was 54.5 years in 1915, 70.5 years in 1967 and 77.8 years in 2006
  • About 23% of women were in the work force in 1915, compared to 41% in 1967 and 58% in 2006
  • There were 2.5 million cars in 1915, 98.9 million in 1967 and 237.2 million in 2006
  • John and Mary topped the list of most popular names in 1915; Michael and Lisa were favourites in 1967; and Jacob and Emily were preferred in 2006.

Population graph

Michael Jackson Is Just A Girl

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Michael Jackson was spotted in St Tropez yesterday wearing woman’s clothing. He was sporting a ruffled blouse, tight jeans,high heels and carrying an orange purse. He was with a young girl thought to be his daughter Paris.

A source told Britain’s The Sun newspaper: “I noticed them as the ‘woman’ had an enormous Audrey Hepburn-type hat. I saw the girl was dressed similarly and thought it was a mum-daughter thing. They sat down and I froze as I saw ‘her’ face and twigged it was not only a ‘him’ but it was Michael Jackson

I am sure most people cringe when they get a close-up of Michael Jackson’s slightly melted-looking face, but to also see his curvy ass in a pair of skin tight jeans must be extra disturbing. You have to wonder if there is anything normal about the guy at all? What guy would choose to wear high heels? The main advantage to being male as I see it, other than being able to pee standing up, is wearing comfortable shoes and loose clothing 24-7.

I think we can dispell the myth that Michael and Janet are the same person, Janet’s ass has never looked that small, but what I am now wondering is if Michael and Janet are brother and sister or just sisters?

Michael Jackson Is Just A Girl


The United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics, an unprecedented study released suggested.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Silicon Valley said their telephone survey indicated more than one of every eight US residents showed at least one sign of "problematic Internet use."

The findings backed those of previous, less rigorous studies, according to Stanford.

Most disturbing was the discovery that some people hid their Internet surfing, or went online to cure foul moods in ways that mirrored alcoholics using booze, according to the study's lead author, Elias Aboujaoude.

"In a sense, they're using the Internet to self-medicate," Aboujaoude said. "And obviously something is wrong when people go out of their way to hide their Internet activity."

According to preliminary research, the typical Internet addict was a single, college-educated, white male in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential computer use.

Monday, October 16, 2006

An anonymous reader writes, "NeoSmart Technologies has just released EasyBCD 1.5, complete with support for Vista, Windows NT/2k/XP, and Windows 9x/ME. EasyBCD 1.5 adds experimental support for dual-booting any of these along with Linux, Mac OS X, or BSD — straight from the Windows Vista bootloader without any additional configuration needed!" From the article: "Windows Vista's new bootmanager is a double-edged sword. It's one of the most powerful booting scripts in existence, and a far cry from the very limiting boot.ini of legacy Windows operating systems. But it overwrites the MBR without a second thought, and doesn't provide any means for users of alternate operating systems and boot managers to use their old system. That's where EasyBCD 1.5 comes in!" EasyBCD 1.5 is free.

Este es el post 500

Me di cuenta hace una semana cuando cambie el nombre de ISRAEL a JIFF, iba por el post 494.

Iba a llegar a un intrascendente y poco relevante número, digo, yo ni festeje el aniversario del blog o sus primeros 1000 hits desde Abril.

Quería hacer un post muy relevante, pero estoy sumido en la rutina y no he viajado mucho (las fotos de las brasileñas hubieran estado bien, ¿verdad?) y no he avanzado gran cosas con aquello de la tésis o la titulación.

Así que me limitaré a hacer un post, pero un *()=?/*3 post esote con las cosas que no han salido por esperar este momento.

Si, será un post que pocos leeran porque así somos la mayoría de los internautas, leemos con atención las primeras tres o cuatro líneas, después empezamos a dar golpes de vista y si es más largo lo dejamos para "Luego", así que son letras que no veran muchos ojos posarse sobre ellas y tranformarlas en ideas, una pena, a eso vinierón a este mundo.

A ver veamos, algunos ya saben, quiero cambiar el look de este lugar, así que si alguien tiene algo que aporta, logos, banners, imagenes, templates haganmelos llegar, creanme que lo agradeceré, la epoca de las estrellitas y los 25 posts en la página principal esta por terminar (aunque nunca he dicho que no me guste, esta cotorron y hace que se vean menos serios mis rants acerca de la irrisoria politica mexicana y la codiciosa y ambiciosa industría del hardware y el software, pero es mortal para los que aún navegan con modem dial up.

EL mail, ya saben , en el perfil.

Luego, vamos a hablar de Microsoft, su ZUNE, su Windows Vista y como hasta hace unos días defendí ambos y ahora ya me decepcionarón, por unos cuantos instantes pensé en pagar la licencia de Windows Vista, pero no más, oyelo bien BILL y los pendejos de Microsoft México (quiero hablar con el dueño del burdel, no con las putas) que ni vela tienen en el entierro, desde hoy me voy a dedicar a difundir "vias alternativas" para usar tus productos, no estoy hablando de piratería porque ya lo dije, la piratería y vivir de la chamba ajena me molesta , pero cualquier persona en mi cercanía con interes en el tema va a saber que es un torrent, que es un firewall, como evitar que tus pinches programitas se conecten a la red, como buscar en astalavista, de donde y como bajar cracks, como abrir tus *.cab con winrar, promoveré el uso de Linux hasta el cansancio y regalaré copias de todo el material crackeado, leakeado que pueda y con ello no voy a ganar un solo peso, pero tú tampoco hijo de perra. (casí nunca usos groserías en el blog, pero se las merecen).

Vamos por partes.
Habrá una versión más de direct X para windows XP, será la DIRECTX 9.0 L, que será la versión de DIRECTX 10 para los que seguiremos usando Windows XP y permitira correr los juegos nuevos (no compren GPUS si no son HDCP compatible), pero si MS esta conciente de que habemos tantos que nos la pasamos desarmando la PC y poniendole discos duros más grandes, GPUS más veloces, memorías con menores latencias y etc, entonces ¿Por qué carambas se le ocurre hacer que su futuro SO solo aguante un cambio de instalación, que tal si un overclokers se compra una nueva gpu para armarse un SLI, un nuevo sata (o más) para armarse un raid o+1 y utiliza su único cambio para reactivar su carísimo windows Vista, mañana se le presenta la oportunidad de invertir 200 dolares en cambiar su CPU por uno más poderos, pero no puede porque entonces ya no podría usar su PC para lo que la armo PARA JUGAR y aunque para todo lo demás esta Linux, el uso primordial de su PC (y de la mía y de la muchos contactos del messenger) es jugar.

¿a qué le teme MS?
¿A la virtualización?, parece que si, no es nada más que esten idotas y crean que la mayoría de las personas compran una pc y jamás la abren hasta que sienten que es necesario cambiarle algo (o toda) , además de que en muchos lugares el poder de computo aún no es suficiente para correr WIndows VIsta en una VM ( no hablemos de más de una virtual machine) ¿qué pasó? ¿cómo llegamos a esta situación?
Por lo menos yo me voy a quedar en XP hasta que esta estupidez sea corregida
¿un solo cambio?, que mal plan, sea que uses una maquina virtual o tu compu, sólo tienes derecho a un cambio, esto esta mal por todas razones, es injusto y en un acto de codicía desmedida.

Luego esta el ZUNE, el mentado DAP con wifi y DRM por defecto (defecto de diseño, será ) ¿para qué ponerle una funcionalidad (que ni siquiera sabemos si estará ahí el día del lanzamiento) si después la van a "recortar"?

Yo nunca he sido fan del ipod, siempre se me ha hecho mdeio malon y como todo lo de apple Overpriced, pero los últimos que anuncio Steve Jobs en Septiembre 12 pues no son tan malos de hecho, es la primera vez que he pensado en adquirir uno, pero ya veremos.

Para empezar el Zune llega a competir con IPOD en un mercado que es casí suyo, aunque tendrá a su favor una de las ventajas del ipod, una miriada de accesorios (que son lo que ha hecho aún más grande y llegá con sus ingados DRM antes que otra cosa, así sea la grabación de tu banda, no eres libre de distribuirla aprovechando su "funcionalidad" inalambrica, es una estupidez (vn dos agresiones al consumidor muy fuertes seguidas, caray Microsoft m ejor que esto no se difunda, si de por si no te quieren y hoy, este esimio que siempre ha sdo imparcial y se ha cansado de resaltar rus meritos ya esta hasta la madre, ve y dale forma cilindrica a tu zune e introducelo al final de tus intestinos.

Luego esta la otra, la compañia que nos caía bién, la que se hacía la visionaría, la que no ganaba mucho, la "complice", la "cuata", la pinche compañia esa dos caras llamada youtube (jamás vuelvo a subir un video mio con esos hijos de perra (venga dailimotion) que se hacian pasar por unos pobrecillos que no ganaban mucho dinero y más para el pendejito ese que dijo "SOLO UN IMBECIL COMPRARIA YOUTUBE", pues la compró el que tiene la granja de servidores más grande del mundo, GOOGLE RECUERDA ESO DE NO DAÑAR ¿para que jodidos quieres tanta información?






Youtube esta muerto, una pena, disimularón muy bien, nos convencierón de que eran unos advenedizos ¿y para qué? Para evitarse demandas, porque como "eran una compoañia chiquitita" no lo hacian por dineros
Sois unos mercenarios
que les den por el culo
Sois igualitos que el jotolon ecuatoriano de la voz de asmatico sobreexcitado de Eduardo Arcos, una putas en corto
Pinches falsos

Tal vez también sea hora de dejar blogger.com, chingado google

Volviendo al Hardware, AMD rebana sus precios (meses de ser "owneada" por intel y sus core2duo les han hecho entrar en razón", así que si tiene la posibilidad vayan del otro lado, porque ya saben que los ingados distribuidores en México jamás se enteran de estos recortes (también son unos hijos de puta)

AMD ANNOUNCED a surprise round of price cuts today, and they are good through the end of the year. They are only on S939 Opterons, AKA 1xx series, but are good on PIB and Tray parts.

This tells me that OEMs shifted to Socket AM2 a lot quicker than AMD had hoped, and there is a pile of parts sitting in a warehouse waiting for a loving owner.

Upgraders, Christmas arrived early, those tray 170s and 175s look pretty good.µ


Second life se vuelve cada día más relevante y rentable

EL conflicto en Oaxaca sigue sin resolverse.

y les hablaré (en otro post) de lo que será construido en donde estuvierón las torres gemelas (desde el 9 de Septiembre lo anunciarón, pero no me sentía bien posteandolo en esas fechas)

Que huevotes de los norcoreanos, primero dicen que hicieron una prueba nuclear, se sienten valientitos y amenazan a los EUA (con ese presidente mesurado que tienen) de tomar "medidas físicas" si se meten en lo que no les importa.
Primero no había confirmación
Si lo hicieron que huevos, que poca, tana pobreza y ellos con esa pendejadas, me recuerdan a La India
SI no lo hicieron, también que huevos, ¿qué quieren ? una guerra en la que se lleven a Corea del Sur entre las patas? ¿Más tuneles? ¿Más dinero de US?¿que, que quieren?

EL sucesor de K. Anan en la Onu será un surcoreano ¿qué esperan ganar?

Japón ya se pronuncio, sólo falta ver que dicen los chinos, esto huele y apesta a más muertos por pendejadas

SI, ha sido un post sombrío, tan sombrío que ya me canse, nos estamos leyendo
PS : Estaremos reconstruyendo el lugar, así que usen ctrl+f5 si algo se ve mal

Las ligas se las debo

500

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Element 118 Created

Element 118 Created

Posted by kdawson on Sunday October 15, @01:28AM
from the this-time-for-sure dept.
BuzzSkyline writes, "The heaviest element yet, Element 118, has been created in Dubna, Russia by a collaboration of researchers from Russia's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the US. They created the new element by fusing together Californium (element 98) and Calcium atoms. The achievement comes five years after the scandal-plagued retraction of an earlier claim, which was based on fabricated data, that three atoms of element 118 had been produced at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. The achievement was reported on October 9 in the journal Physical Review C (subscription needed to read more than the abstract)."